Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > On 4/15/07, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: >> >> so what color photo printers are supported in Linux? My personal color >> printer at home is the Canon i9900, which is connected via USB2 to a >> WindowsXP system, I don't have much experience trying to do photo >> printing from Linux, in fact the last time I did any color printing from >> Unix or Linux, it was on a color Postscript laser printer, and it was >> nowheres near photo quality. >> >> ditto, multifunction SOHO copier/printer/fax/scanner machines (which is >> what I'm presuming the MP160 is). Those typically are 90% host >> software, and require all-in-one application software running on the >> host system to manage their copier and fax functionality. How would >> you propose a consumer electronics oriented company support Linux? >> Which glibc should they link with? which version of gnome/gtk/kde/what >> should they build their app with? just give the user a source tarball >> and say 'have fun compiling'? > > > That's an interesting point, but it's sad, too, because it makes Linux the > limping straggler following behind the great M$ iron horse Window$. Or is > there an alternative for Linux that does print photo-quality photo images? > > Would it be so difficult to send the source to the major distributors (RH, > SUSE, to name two) so they could include quality printer support in the > distros? (Yeah, I know, more work for the distro developers, but that IS > the business they're in....) If I were a vendor and they offered me the source, I would say "post it at sourceforge or savanagh under an approved OSS licence, and then we'll look at it." -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list